A burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

Wikileaks >> Schneier on Security"..just as the music and movie industries are going to have to change their business models for the Internet era, governments are going to have to change their secrecy models. I don't know what those new models will be, but they will be different."

18,000 Windows Phone developers promised payments in January alongside process tweaks >> WinRumors"Microsoft has promised that developers will be paid for Windows Phone 7 app sales in the fourth week of January 2011. "Payouts will include payment for all sales of Windows Phone 7 apps and games that occurred from October 2010 through the end of December 2010. Microsoft says that after the initial payout in January 2011, developer payouts will be distributed on a monthly basis for all developers who meet the minimum payout threshold limits." Well, money is tight in Redmond.

ACS:Law Take Alleged File-Sharers To Court – But Fail On a Grand Scale >> TorrentFreak"The Patents County Court in the UK has slammed a messy attempt by law firm ACS:Law to get default judgments against 8 internet connection owners who it is claimed infringed or allowed others to infringe copyrights." Intriguing: a lot of the detail was done incorrectly, and the judge ruled out the "purely administrative" method of filing complaints.

Estonia blames Russia for cyberwar of 2007 >> Wikileaks"For example, the Presidential website, which normally has a 2 million Mbps (megabits per second) capacity, was flooded with nearly 200 million Mbps of traffic." But Estonia admits there's no smoking gun - and likely won't be.

Flash Player for Chrome Notebooks « Adobe Flash Player Team Blog"In terms of Chrome notebooks specifically, as with many aspects of the device, Flash Player 10.1 support remains a work in progress... "The work we're doing on acceleration for video in Flash Player is a top priority because the vast majority of video on the web is delivered using Flash. As a matter of fact, adoption of Flash video streaming is on the rise with a more than 100% year-over-year growth over the past two years." Er, OK, apart from YouTube and Vimeo offering HTML5. Whatever.